Valve keeping up with the trend of "worst kept secrets". You need an invite to join the alpha but since everyone who owns it can refer their friends, it spread very quickly.

I've been playing it the past few days and it's honestly very fun. Still a bit rough around the edges (especially in terms of balance) since it's in early access, but it has serious potential to be dota 2 levels of popular.

For the unaware, Deadlock is a 3rd person shooter MOBA. It feels like a mix of Dota and Overwatch/Team Fortress. Nobody is allowed to share footage or screenshots, but obviously with so many playing there's a ton of leaks out there.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Heyyyyyyy buddyyy !

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

As you got invited by OP would you mind sharing your invites too? Asking for ~~a friend~~ me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I can invite too if people need it, shoot me a DM

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Heyyyy buddyyys!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I heard you got a referral, remember all those times I've helped you with (insert problem)? You wouldn't mind if I asked for a referral from you?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

friends for over 30 days apparently for everyone here asking for invites

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

They must have just made that change, I got it the other day from someone who I had just added to my list.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (14 children)

Somebody needs to tell the games team that they make their own operating system. This is Windows-only. WTF.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Runs perfectly fine on Linux though, with DX11 or Vulkan. On Windows, Vulkan has some performance issues that make it quite unenjoyable, but in Linux for me it plays a lot better with Vulkan than Windows DX11.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Runs perfectly fine on Linux though

The quality of Proton is not the point, the point is that they're not dogfooding their own platform. They'll likely follow the same course as CS2: Lengthy prerelease test exclusively on Windows, then a few days before actual release someone will port the game to Linux/SteamOS and release day is the first day of the Linux port's alpha test.

How can anybody at Valve expect game publishers to take Steam Deck and SteamOS seriously if the developer of the actual platform is not dogfooding it with their own games?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah I get what you mean, but with Linux gaming I think it's great enough that it runs with Proton and no one is blocking it. I also believe they'll port it to native Linux after the alpha stage is done, but remember that the game is in a closed alpha state, so at no point this should be taken as "Valve not dogfooding their platform". All we can do right now is wait and see.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They are beta testing, remove the OS issue and they van focus on games issues

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hello internet friends!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

They are trying to build hype. The leaks are intentional and expected.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looking for new friends with benefits. If you know what I mean.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Sorry, I only date people with Deadlock invitations to share.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Man I sure do love DOTA 2 and Team Fortress 2. I have thousands of hours in these games. This sounds amazing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Anyone trying to share an invite code? My gratefulness would know no bounds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bit late here, but looking for an invite! Have wanted to try a game like this for a while

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Anyone having an invite for me 🥺👉👈

Edit: To anyone giving handouts, just add me over https://s.team/p/trd-vvwh/MVFQVQTG

If I get the invite, I will invite the next person in this thread 🤝

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

If anyone has an invite going pls let me know

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey friends, got a spare invite? Slide right on into my DMs 😀

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

May I have an invite pls 👉🏻👈🏻🥺

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Somebody wants to invite me? I can play with you during EU evenings, if you want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Hello fellow gamers! Can I trouble any of you for an invite???? 😁😁😁

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Mind if I have one?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Hello it's your long time Linux friend!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Would love an invite as well :) Thank you in advance if anyone does decide to give one!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Hype trains a comin

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

For the unaware, Deadlock is a 3rd person shooter MOBA. It feels like a mix of Dota and Overwatch/Team Fortress

So like SMITE?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not really, SMITE is a moba that happens to be 3rd person, Deadlock actually plays like a 3rd person shooter that needs proper aiming and headshots and a much faster pace.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I see. This is probably a pretty niche reference nowadays, but is it more similar to Monday Night Combat? That was an actual shooter IIRC and had moba mechanics like lanes and creeps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It's actually closer to Battleborn. Like the other commenter said, it's more of a third person shooter with MOBA elements. There's focus on movement (you can dash, double jump, crouch slide, some characters fly), headshots and distance change the damage and melee/parry are just a button, while every character has guns as their man attack means. For the moba elements, it changes a bit since there's 4 lanes and it's a 6x6.